A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

A half truth is a whole lie.